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STOCK GAR.

No. 248,414. Patanted Oct. 18,1881.

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JOHN M. EDMUNDS AND CHARLES E. INALLIN, OF SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH TERRITORY.A

STOCK-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 248,414, dated October 18, 1881,

Application led August 12, 1881. (No model.)

T o all whom it may concern Beit known that we,JoHN M. EDMUNDS and CHARLES E.WALLiN,ot Salt Lake City,in the county of Salt Lake, Utah Territory, have invented a new and Improved Stock-Oar, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of our invention is to provide a new and improved car for transporting live stockin such amanner that the health and quality ofthe same will not be impaired by transportation.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a plan view of our improved stock-car, part of the roof being broken out. Fig. 2 is a crosssectionalelevation of thesame on line a' m, Fig. l. Fig. 3is a cross-sectional elevation ot' the same on the line y y, Fig. l.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The stock-car A is provided with a roller, B, at each end, which roller is mounted on a suitably-journaled shaft, O,with squared ends D, for receiving a key orlike instrument for rotating this roller. Strong belts or bands E, of leather orstrong webbing, are attached to these rollers or drums B, and extend longitudinally through the car. These belts E pass over transverse bars F, about two and one-halt' or three feet from the loorof the car,and through a series of stirrups or hangers, (lr, suspended by means ot' rods H from the roofJ of the car. The car is also provided with outwardly-swinging doors K at the bottom of the sides of the car, these doors being opened to remove the manure, bedding-straw, 85o., from the car. The car is further provided with hay-racks L, which are pivoted to the sides ot the car, are heldin an inclined position by a brace, M, and can be folded against the sides ofthe car when not in use. The sliding doors N in the root1 of the car are opened,and the hay is passed through these openings into the racks. Waterand feed troughs O are pvoted to the sides of the car and can be folded up against the same when not in use. The water is conducted into thc troughs O through pipesfrom the water-receiving troughs P at the top ofthe car,into which troughs l) the water is conducted from the watering-stations.

The operation is as follows: When the dcsired number of animals are in the car the rollers or drums B are rotated by means of a ratchet-.lever or crank-keys,whereby the belts or bands E will be drawn tant directly under the bellies of the animals, which are thus partly supported by these belts and are considerablyrelieved. Weak animals cannot fall upon the Hoor and cannot be trodden down or trarnpled upon by tbc larger and stronger animals. The animals will not be fatigued and will arrive at the end of the journey in al much healthier and stronger condition than the animals transported in ordinary cars. The cattle can be fed very conveniently during the trip, and the manure can be removed from the car without requiring the animals to leave the same.

Ve are aware that it is not broadly new to use in a cattle-car chains or ropes suspended or woundupon a roll, or to use a hinged feedtrough; but

What we claim as new and of our invention The bars F, extendingacrossthecar,and the suspended stirrups G, in combination with bandsE, which pass oversaid bars and through said stirrups, as shown and described.

JOHN MARION EDMUNDS. CHARLES EDWIN VALLIN. Witnesses:

F. CisLEn, W. S. PIRKARD. 

